MCSE Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) formerly Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for MCSE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 276 287
Rank change year-on-year -35 +11 -43
Permanent jobs citing MCSE 12 30 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.070% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.34% 0.84% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £42,375 - £26,750
25th Percentile £44,063 £30,750 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £33,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +36.36% -17.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £48,438 £41,250
90th Percentile - £65,000 £56,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +35.71% -12.50% -11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

MCSE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,522 3,557 4,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 20.66% 40.38% 30.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,063 1,640 2,565
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,225 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,300 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% -2.38% +0.10%
75th Percentile £76,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

MCSE
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing MCSE relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

MCSE job vacancy trend in the South East

MCSE
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MCSE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing MCSE

MCSE
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing MCSE in the South East over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Salary histogram for MCSE in the South East

MCSE
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Kent - 8 - -
Thames Valley -3 4 £55,000 +22.22% 2
Buckinghamshire -7 3 £65,000 +23.81%
Oxfordshire -26 1 £42,500 +25.93%
MCSE
England

MCSE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) LAN
1 3 (25.00%) VPN
1 3 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) French Language
3 2 (16.67%) Swedish Language
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
1 7 (58.33%) Service Analyst
1 7 (58.33%) Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
1 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL
1 8 (66.67%) ITSM
2 7 (58.33%) Customer Service
2 7 (58.33%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity Planning
5 1 (8.33%) Coaching
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) Observability
5 1 (8.33%) Patch Management
5 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Task Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (75.00%) Degree
3 7 (58.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CCNA
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (8.33%) MCSA
5 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (8.33%) Adobe
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (8.33%) Dell
4 1 (8.33%) Draytek
4 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (8.33%) Juniper
4 1 (8.33%) SonicWALL
4 1 (8.33%) Veeam
4 1 (8.33%) WatchGuard